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I Cut My LLM API Bill in Half with a Single Python Library

Rishav E. Kejriwal on March 18, 2026

Last month I was debugging why our agent pipeline was burning through $400/day in OpenAI tokens. Turns out 60% of what we were feeding GPT-4 was re...
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Great insights! This is really helpful for developers working in this space.

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AIAllTheThings W. •

Great insights! This is really helpful for developers working in this space.

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EchoGhostLabs K. •

Interesting perspective. I've had similar experiences in my projects.

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Ling Yu 煜灵境 •

Learned something new today. Thanks for putting this together!

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Y. Liu •

Thanks for sharing this. I've been looking for exactly this kind of breakdown.

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Freni Stefano •

Really well written. Bookmarked for future reference.

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Mike Munich (International A. •

Excellent write-up. The step-by-step approach makes it very approachable.

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C. X •

Great insights! This is really helpful for developers working in this space.

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Blake B. Heron •

Love the practical approach. Theory is nice, but hands-on examples are better.

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ConcernedCitizen H. •

Learned something new today. Thanks for putting this together!

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Dennis M. •

Learned something new today. Thanks for putting this together!

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Jian T. •

Solid article. The practical examples really help illustrate the concepts.

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Jason Tech •

Starred. This is exactly what I needed.

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54% compression with zero deps? Take my star.